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Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. (Ex 20:8-11Ex 20:8-11
English: King James Version (1611) - KJV
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: ¹⁰ But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: ¹¹ For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.  

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Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. (Deut 5:12-15Deut 5:12-15
English: King James Version (1611) - KJV
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. ¹³ Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: ¹⁴ But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. ¹⁵ And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.  

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All glory and honor and praise unto the LORD our God, Creator of heaven and earth and sea and all that is in them. All power above the earth, in the earth and beneath the earth is yours alone. You called all things into being, You spoke and the heavens and earth were formed. You spoke and there was light. You spoke and the day and night were formed. You spoke and stars, sun, moon, seas, ground, plants and animals were formed. You spoke, you shaped, you breathed humans in your image and likeness. All things were created in and through your Word by the power of your hovering Spirit.

We rejoice dear Lord and Provider that you alone satisfy the desires and needs of every living thing. You alone create, sustain, and fill your creation with glory. You alone are worthy of praise. You alone give hope. You alone fill us with joy. You alone leads us in the way of everlasting life.

We rejoice that when we were still enslaved and powerless to help ourselves, you stretched out your mighty hand and delivered us from the cruel Pharoah, the harsh slavemaster, the destroyer of our souls. You called us by name, you set us in family, you redeemed us, healed us and restored us into the light of your love.

Lord Jesus we rejoice that the Father sent you and revealed you to us as Word Made Flesh. We rejoice in this world of time and space where all things are united in you alone.

You call us into life.
You call us into fullness.
You call us into the riches of grace upon grace upon grace.

We rest in you alone.
We rest in you alone.
We rest in you.

We forsake the bread of anxious toil and feast on the abundance of your blessings.
We rejoice that even as we live and breathe and move in this world of time and space, we live and breathe and move in you.

We are not abandoned or forsaken. We do not stumble in darkness but rest in the light of you countenance.

Even as we work to eat and provide for our families, we rejoice that our time is rooted and founded in Jesus Christ.
So we rest.
We rest.
We rest
in the Vine that is always fruitful,
in the Vine that is always life-giving,
in the Vine that sustains us,
in the Vine that renews us,
in the Vine that makes us fruitful in word and deed.

Even as we plant and build and live in the land, we rejoice that our space is footed and founded in Jesus Christ. There is
no place,
no place,
no place beyond
His grasp,
His eye,
His love.

In the midst of our working,
in the midst of our dreaming,
in the midst of our struggling,
in the midst of our suffering,
in the midst of learning,
in the midst of striving,
in the midst of our yearning,
in the midst of our making,
in the midst of our buying,
in the midst of our selling,
in the midst of our churching,
we stop.

we breathe.

we rest.

we remember.

we behold,

we bow

before

the Lord of the Sabbath.

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